GDP per capita comparison with France, Germany and Italy
Switzerland seems to be far away from his neighbours regarding the gdp per capita. Germany is in the second place with 53074.54 in 2018 (28% less than Switzerland), France in the third place with 45342.40 in 2018 (50% less than Switzerland). The conclusion of this analysis is that Switzerland is better when speaking about economic health into an individual citizens perspective.
Unemployment comparison by education level with France, Germany and Italy
As we can see from the graph, Switzerland has had a relatively stable unemployment rate since the early 2000s. An increase of about 2.2% in 18 years for those with a high or intermediate level of education and an increase of about 3.8% for those with a low level of education. Only Germany is doing better than Switzerland in terms of unemployment at the end of 2018 for those with a high or intermediate level of education. Nevertheless, the gap remains small, 1.6% for the advanced education category and 1.9% for the intermediate level. Switzerland is doing better than Germany in terms of employability in the low education category, with a 0.7% gap in favour of Switzerland.
In contrast, France and Italy are the worst performers, with unemployment rates for all education categories combined far higher than Germany and Switzerland. For example, the unemployment rate for the low and intermediate education categories is twice as high in France as in Switzerland in 2018. Italy shows similar results to France.
Finally, it is interesting to note that Germany has seen its unemployment rate fall since 2005, Switzerland remains stable, while France and Italy have seen their unemployment rates rise since 2006, although there has been a slight improvement over the last 5 years.
Government expenditure on education, in comparison with GDP
As we can see between these four countries, France is the country that spends the most on education in relation to its GDP. Switzerland is in second place. It is interesting to note that France spends more on education but that nevertheless its unemployment rate is much higher than Switzerland (see previous graph). Germany is in third place, very close to Switzerland. Italy is the country that spends the least on education in relation to its GDP in all years. Finally, this graph highlights the fact that Switzerland is the country with the lowest GDP (among the 4 countries compared) but that it is the country with the highest GDP per capita (see previous graph). To conclude, we can deduce that Switzerland’s expenditure on education is certainly lower than France’s, but that graduates will find work more easily and will benefit from higher salaries (although this must be balanced with the Consumer Price Index).
Switzerland’s imports and exports
We can see that the Switzerland imports a bit (19,24%) from low / middle economies in 2017 but this is really increasing since 2010. About the exports, Switzerland exports a lot to high-income economies (75,15%) in 2017 but this is decreasing since 2010. As a conclusion, we can say that Switzerland tend to import more from low / middle economies but also to export more to these economies. However, the most of exports / imports of Switzerland are made with high-income economies but the low / middle economies increase their parts during last decade.
Switzerland population map
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proj4string: +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defsHere is a map of Switzerland divided into cantons, showing the total population of each canton in 2018. The canton of Zurich has the most inhabitants (1520968 inhabitants) and the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden the least with only 16145 inhabitants.